John Ruskin Quotes
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
Raekwon -
I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
Warren Farrell -
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
Tadashi Yanai -
I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
Ted Olson -
I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
Lapo Elkann -
I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
Kapil Dev
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
Fay Godwin -
An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
Emil Cioran -
I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
Little Richard -
The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
Patsy Cline -
You have to feel good about yourself.
Janet Jackson -
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
Albert Bandura -
Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.
Leonard Susskind -
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
Oprah Winfrey -
There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.
J. C. Watts -
Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?
Rachel Bilson -
Thus day was turned into night and light into darkness. Some thought that the Giants were rising again in revolt (for at this time also many of their forms could be discerned in the smoke and, moreover, a sound as of trumpets was heard), while others believed that the whole universe was being resolved into chaos or fire.
Cassius Dio
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Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.
Terence McKenna -
Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Liu Xiaobo -
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
Albert Einstein -
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
John Ruskin